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A Raisin In The Sun And The Fight For Masculinity In the world today, there has been no society found where women dominate over males (Stearns 14). Civilization’s entire history has been based upon masculine traits and how they affect society. Some say this may be because the fertility of women was always put in such high esteem by early religions. Men may have been driven to superiority by the constant feeling that they were inferior (Stearns 15). Regardless of the reason, in almost every society, men make an undying effort to show their masculinity and superiority over their peers. Where there is a void of this masculinity, a man may feel second rate and there is a need to fill that void. In The play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, Walter Lee Younger feels just that. Walter Lee’s desperate dream of the liquor store is fueled by his need to feel a sense of honor, ideal manhood and resisting regression to his mother. Walter desperately wants to buy a liquor store because it would leave him with a sense of honor. In this sense, honor is “being good at being a man”. He yearns for support from his raisin, sun, walter, man, store, family, liquor, way, mother, honor, manhood, being, over, money, men, feel, dream, support, society, sees, role, gilmore, control, because, sense, own, needs, need, independent, boys, through, something, one, masculinity, make, life, lee